Shortlisted for the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture 2020: the Bethnal Green Mission Church in London, the first major project by Gatti Routh Rhodes, is shaping Stefanie Rhodes’ architectural future
Author Archives: Jon Astbury
Off the beaten track: SO? Architecture and Ideas, Turkey
A chicken coop in Erzincan, Turkey, is among a plethora of diverse projects by SO? Architecture and Ideas addressing a return to the rural
A cut above: FRPO, Spain
Voids, slits and cut-outs are design elements employed by FRPO to make their functional buildings stand out from the crowd
African green: Studio FH Architects, Uganda
Encompassing Ugandan schools and safari lodges, the work of Studio FH merges idealism with pragmatism
Hides of industry: Johansen Skovsted, Denmark
Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter are increasingly drawn to post-industrial rural sites where they can deploy wider regeneration initiatives
From kernel to grave: Alejandro Guerrero | Andrea Soto, Mexico
An assemblage of structures, landscaping and sculptural elements by Alejandro Guerrero | Andrea Soto in Acatlán de Juárez, Mexico, includes a monument to the founder of a corn-processing complex
Book of the month: The Sausage of the Future
Carolien Niebling examines the role of the sausage in the reduction of meat consumption
River Aire by Superpositions: ‘where the line between the natural and planned is blurred’
Superpositions marries culture and nature to transform the trajectory of the River Aire in Geneva in a bid to prevent flooding
BC-AS: ‘we design not only buildings, but the process of achieving those buildings’
With offices in Ethiopia and Belgium, this firm seeks to challenge the established notions of ‘humanitarian’ architecture
Dialogue Centre in Szczecin by KWK Promes: ‘An exercise as archaeological as it is topographical’
KWK Promes digs beneath Szczecin’s history for this subterranean museum in Solidarity Square